The speaker uses the following lines of the stanza to reassure the woman that their act could not be considered a sin because a fleabite isn't considered as such. Such a common event cannot be a loss of innocence because if that were true nearly everyone would have lost his or her innocence. Therefore this lady should not worry about giving herself to him before they marry, because their only act is the mixing pf their blood...
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Therefore this lady should not worry about giving herself to him before they marry, because their only act is the mixing pf their blood. The final lines of the first stanza are the point in which the poet introduces the sub textual idea of the baby. "And pampered swells with one blood made of two." On the surface this line describes the physical changes that happen to a flea's body after it fills with blood...
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The Flea by John Donne It is true, he says, and it is this very fact that proves that her fears are false: If she were to sleep with him ("yield to me"), she would lose no more honor than she lost when she killed the flea...	3 / 698
The Flea Analysis Because of this, he continues to press on with his argument. Telling her how her fears are unnecessary, and that she would lose just as much honor as when she killed the flea as when she gave herself to him...	2 / 391
The Flea Within the flea, he says, where their blood is mingled, the speaker goes on to explain how they are married, even more than married. “Where we almost, yea more than married are...	3 / 713
The Flea Analysis There, he argues, killing the flea was easy, and as you say it hasn't harmed us - well, yielding to me will be just as easy and painless. This poem borrows a lot of religious imagery, because it helps add an aburd authority to the poem, as Donne tries to argue that what they are about to do is not only supported by God, but to not do it would be heretical...	2 / 340